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RoadTrip | Old vs new: Two telling Mercedes-Benz cars celebrate 50 years of Stellenbosch Wine Route

The Stellenbosch Wine Route is a world famous tourist attraction. The RoadTrip team tracks its history in two vehicles from two very different automotive eras.

Bottelary , Western-cape , South-africa , Rust-en-vrede , Free-state , Cape-town , Stellenbosch , Hazendal , Simonsberg , Hartenberg , Koopmanskloof , Northern-cape

SA wine history: Was Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel really our first bottle-fermented bubbly?

SA wine history: Was Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel really our first bottle-fermented bubbly?
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Namibia , Windhoek , Khomas , Italy , South-africa , Nederburg , Western-cape , Paarl , Stellenbosch , France , Burgundy , Italian

Explore Méthode Cap Classique, The Bubbly Wine From South Africa

This year the South African wine industry celebrates the 50 anniversary of the first harvest of grapes for the Cap Classique category.

Germany , Italy , South-africa , Austria , Stellenbosch , Western-cape , Simonsig , France , Spain , South-african , Graham-beck , Pieter-ferreira

Carrie's Corner: Simonsig's Johan Malan on bubbly, the Wine Route and his pioneering father

Simonsig Wine Estate is synonymous with the history of the South African wine industry, the Stellenbosch wine region, and the Malan family name. In this episode of Carrie’s Corner, wine connoisseur Carrie Adams speaks to Johan Malan – the receipt of The 40th Diners Club Winemaker of the Year Award for 2020. His father, Frans Malan, produced the first bottle of the much-loved Kaapse Vonkel – one his many pioneering approaches to the South African wine industry. Johan tells the story of his father’s legacy. – Nadya Swart
Johan Malan on his family history:
My father actually grew up in Wellington on a wine farm there and went to school in Cape Town at Jan van Riebeeck [High School]. So he was already used to the big city from a young age, and when he finally got to Stellenbosch University he studied winemaking, viticulture and enology. During that time, his father died at a very young age. So an uncle of his told him that he must rather sell the farm, because he can always buy another farm – but he will never be able to get his geleerdheid [studies]. So his studies had to take priority, which was actually done, I think, in the late 40s. And then, during his time at Stellenbosch University, he met my mother, whose father happened to have a wine farm in Stellenbosch.

Cape-town , Western-cape , South-africa , Franschoek , Limpopo , Wellington , New-zealand-general , New-zealand , Simonsig , Stellenbosch , France , French

Stellenbosch Wine Routes marks birth of SA wine tourism

We take so much for granted these days – rotisserie chickens in the supermarket, avos and strawberries all year round (even if it goes against nature but we pay for the privilege anyway), not running out of toilet paper, road signs directing us to wine farms…
None of this was always the case; when Stellenbosch Wine Routes was established in 1971, those familiar brown and white signs with the farms’ names pointing us to the entrances – and upon which we partly rely, along with GPS apps (and given my recent feuds with Google Maps, the physical signs are essential), to find our destination – were prohibited. Apparently, the municipality thought they would distract drivers and affect their ability to keep control of their vehicles. Which is laughable now, considering cellphones. And the proportionate number of idiots on the road 50 years later.

Mexico , Kanonkop , Northern-cape , South-africa , Hartenberg , Western-cape , Durban , Kwazulu-natal , Franschhoek , Vins , Provence-alpes-côd-azur , France

Wineaux: Sparkling toasts to the seven days of New Year's

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Stocking up on bargain bubbles for a New Year’s Eve bash won’t be necessary this year, so I suggest accumulating a few bottles of brilliant bubbles and welcoming 2021 by celebrating New Year’s
week instead. Drink them in place of your usual dinner wine — I can’t think of a more go-with-everything drink.
Roasted duck? Caviar? Winter vegetables au gratin? Mushroom lasagna? Sushi? Thai curry? Filet mignon? Leftover turkey sandwiches? Whatever your festive meal plans, sparkling wine comes to the rescue. And what could add more to the festivity than tiny bubbles breaking to the surface of your best wine glasses?

France , Champagney , Franche-comter , Thailand , Russian-river , California , United-states , Italy , South-africa , Austria , Cuve , Simonsig